The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
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house nearly completed and expects TO oc-
cupy 1t soon. - Scion Smith has caught
eight foxes this fall, one of them being
beautiful silver-gray. - Jennie Bartlett
and Kate Bowles of Goddard Seminary
spent Saturday and Sunday in town.
williamstown.
Miss MARY Il. Epson daughter of the late
Mr.. Elijah Edson), who has been living in
Lowell, Mass, for some years past, was re-
Gently married to Mr.. Clifton Little of that
state and will henceforth reside in Boston.
- Miss Emma l.. Ainsworth went West
on Tuesday last. Her home will be in
Missouri Valley, Iowa 80 Frank Cod
frey has been offered a large advance on the
price paid for the Widow Waldo place."
but refuses to sell. 1t is one of the
best located in the village. == Mrs. AL
varo Webster is convalescent - G. G.
Barnes, veteran canvasser, has, with his
son Frank, been working hereabouts of late.
- Elisha X. Burnham shows black
raspberry vine of this years growth that
measures nearly or quite thirteen feet in
length. Is there not good field here in
town for some one who will grow small
fruits on large scale? - Henry Poole,
who has the knack of making fine things
with edged tools, has just put the finishing
touch to his home buildings, making the
place one of the prettest in our village.
- A recent visit to the quarry neigh
bOrhoOd revealed the fact that some forty to
fifty men are employed just now in quarry
ing granite in our town. 60 Hiram DeX-
ter, who came up here to his old home last
week from Marthas Vineyard, Mass,
seems very feeble. He walks like one who
is near the end of lifes Journey. 60 We
hear the entertainment given here not long
ago by the boy orator, Ralph Bingham, well
spoken of. His impersonation of an old
man of certain type is said to have been
capital. 80 Mrs. DIR. c. w. McClearn,
we hear, is soon to join her husband in
Urbana, III. 80 George W. Tileston,
grandson of the late Darius Pride, ESQ., who
has been manufacturing flour in Farbault,
Mimi, has arranged for the building of
mills in ST. Cloud, Mimi, and will move to
that place. - The body of Mrs. Lucretia
Ferry was taken to North Hyde Park for
burial last week. 1t was accompanied by
her brother, Jason johnson. - Mrs.
Margaret Story of Detroit, Mich, who has
been here some weeks with her niece, Mrs.
Norman G.. Davis, left for Wentworth,
n. H.. last week. Her stay here was de-
| lightful for her friends. - Fred Bruce,
son-in-law of the late Rev. Daniel Field,
| has Just been granted a divorce in Washing
ton county, after two attempts had failed in
Orange county to put asunder what had
been joined together. - Whitney Sibley
of Winooski last Friday visited his son
George, who is in the employ of j. X.
Lynde. Mr. Sibley is compelled by i'll
health to try southern California, whittier
! he is about to go. - We have just had
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letter from an old and well-known ex-resi-
| dent of this place, whose last years are
! being spent in another state. He keeps
up an acquaintance with this place largely
| through the WATCHMAN and seems to re-
! tain a lively interest in it. He had hoped
! to live to see a railroad through here" He
! has felt, as so many of his townsmen have
done, that it was by fraud the place was
not given it when the Central was first
built. But he has lived long enough to
know that the wrong is in some meas
ure to be righted yet. - To encourage
the location of granite-shops here we
have heard the suggestion of calling a
town meeting to secure, VI may be, the
temporary exemption from taxation of
any firms who will come here. This and
more is being offered elsewhere to induce
the coming of such firms. Some of our com
petition was rather unlooked-for and little
hard to meet but it must be met and
| matched by some means. Our towns-folk
| talk as if they were ready for the fray.
! With the exception of one rainy day
last week, work was prosecuted vigorously
on the railroad 1t is a matter for much re-
greet that the beautiful piece of wagon road
from near the old Carr house to the Barre line
must be given up on account OF the rail-
road. 1t will be moved further west on to
the meadow, but bereft of the shade that has
long made it so welcome in summer and all
else that has made it lovely at all times of
the year - William b. Wall of the Cen
trail Vermont railroad has bought of John
Clark what has been known as the lime
kiln place. The price said to have been
paid is an advance of siXty-siX and two
thirds per cent upon the appraisal by our
listers last year. The place contains a bed
of mari said to be one of the best in the
state, containing, as it does, a very large
per cent of lime. We hope the purchaser
may bring back to life the business of manu-
featuring lime here. - Mrs. c. G. Barnes
was summoned by telegraph on Friday last
to Erie, Penn. Her brother, DIR. John Flint
son of our late townsman, Warren Flint,
was suffering from hemorrhage at the nose
and his life despared of. - Rev. f. w
Hamblin went to North Hyde Park to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Lucretia Ferry on
Friday last. - A body buried nearly
sixty years ago in the West Hill cemetery
has lately been removed. Portions of the
coffin, thought to be of birch, were quite
well preserved though not having been
enclosed in box A board was found on
which the initials and age of the deceased
were marked with brass nails, some OF
which We're very bright. - Some of ouI
towns-foik will surely be glad to avail them
selves of excursion rates-Sj for the round
trp-to Boston next Monday. They will
be allowed eight days in which to return
- Grant Templeton has gone to Massa
chusetts to live. - Mr.. Warren Poole
slowly fails and there seems but little pros
pect of recovery. - We have before
acquaintances who have been financially
successful in the work OF nursing the sick
1t may be to some matter of interest tC
learn what pay professional male nurses get
hereabouts We are told in Barre that Their
: services are in good demand AT the pres
ent time one young man from out of the
, place is getting twenty cents an hour, day
! and night there. He wants but about foul
, hours out of twenty-four for rest, and thus
gets 81 per day-and board, of course
- Will Veazey, so long in the employ
of ii. ID. Abbott, has gone to Providence
: Il. l., to work for George Calef 80 j. S
Collins, veteran stone-cutter of Barre, il
! at work on the granite foundation of Rice
Davenports house. - The railroad sur
veyors are still at work in the Gulf. -
We are told that one of the leading grant,
men hereabouts has offered to bet larg,
sum that any railroad to the quarries vii
start from Williamstown. 60 Mrs. JOIN
Wheatley of Brookfeld has come to resid
r for the present with her son, Sumne
= Wheatley.
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